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36-Year-Old Apple Computer Sells for $374,500
http://www.pcworld.com/article/257784/36yearold_apple_computer_sells_for_374500.html
A working vintage Apple-1 computer sold Friday for $374,500 at a Sotheby’s auction in New York where a memo written by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs also went for $27,500. Both went to undisclosed individuals.
The selling price of the Apple-1 was a record for an Apple-1, according to Computerworld. One sold nearly two years ago at a Christie’s auction in London for $213,000. In 2010, one of the vintage computers was sold for $160,000. At its release in 1976, the Apple-1 cost $666.66.
The computer is one of fewer than 50 Apple-I computers believed to still exist; of them, only a half dozen are known to still work.
A “Catalogue Note” on the Sotheby’s website shares some interesting details:
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